.TH LOADFONT 1
.SH NAME
loadfont \- load a font into the video card
.SH SYNOPSIS
\fBloadfont \fIfontfile\fR
.br
.de FL
.TP
\\fB\\$1\\fR
\\$2
..
.de EX
.TP 20
\\fB\\$1\\fR
# \\$2
..
.SH EXAMPLES
.EX "loadfont iso1.fnt" "Loads the ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) font"
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
.I Loadfont
loads a custom font into the video card (EGA or VGA).  The font character
size has to be 8x16 pixels and the font file must contain 256 characters for
a total size of 4 kilobytes.
.PP
.I Loadfont
together with
.I loadkeys
allow the console and keyboard to be customized to national conventions.
.PP
If it exists, the file
.I /etc/font
is loaded as a custom font by
.B /usr/etc/rc
at boot time.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR console (4).
